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IssueVol. 036 Issue 002 (March 1 2003)
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Paid articleThe Continuing Crisis
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
GEORGE W. BUSH'S THIRD SPRING IN OFFICE arrives, and still the most physically fit president in modern times has yet to appear in public jogging in his underpants a la Bill Clinton or passing out...
Paid articleCorrespondence
Not In CINC I recently finished reading "The Men Who Would Be CINC" (TAS, Jan./Feb. 2003). It was interesting and entertaining. However, Mr. Babbin should have made some additional points in...
Paid articleDeclars War
Fund, John H.
1 Liberals became unglued in the days just before President Bush gave the green light for the toppling of Saddam Hussein. Syndicated columnist Richard Reeves, the author of respected books on John...
Paid articleWe Want Ours
Wesbury, Brian S.
Fat Forecast BY BRIAN S. WESBURY n 1992, Robert Bartley's book, I The Seven Fat Years and How To Do It Again, described America's stunningly successful metamorphosis—economically and...
Paid articleLet Them Eat Fiber
Gilder, George
Let them eat cake," "Saw off California and float it out to sea," and "depends how you define sex"—can now be added a new shining example of suicidal insouciance. Perpetrator of the new "What, me...
Paid articleWhy the Teachers Can't Be Trusted
Bethell, Tom
attended an education confer/ ence in Washington the other day, and something unusual happened. It is not easy to notice when the watchdogs don't bark, but this time they surely didn't. The...
Paid articleToo-Heavy Metal
Babbin, Jed
T he Pentagon changed in the Clinton days. Social experimentation had the most visible impact on our armed forces. As important—and less visible—was the Clintonistas' dedication to the UN's...
Paid articleMouseketeers
Griffith, Mark
M any Americans may be starting to wonder who Jacques Chirac is and whether he matters. The fact that France believed it had a diplomatic veto on U.S. action in Iraq up until the last few days—let...
Paid articleNo Apologies
Train, John
No Apologies BY JOHN TRAIN 0 n July 6, 1973, at 6:30 P.M., a group of prominent citizens called on the president of Chile's Senate, Eduardo Frei, to bewail the country's impending collapse into a...
Paid articleThe Rogue Nuclear Threat
Cohen, Sam T.; Douglass, Joseph D.
The Rogue Nuclear Threat BY SAM T. COHEN AND JOSEPH D. DOUGLASS, JR. S oon after World War II the United States, via the United Nations, sought to put nuclear weapons under international control....
Paid articleDumas Among the Gods
Valiunas, Algis
Moral clarity announces itself more vehemently in childhood than later in life, when you would think your moral sense ought to be refined to a pure and pellucid focus, but when in fact it tends to...
Paid articleA Talk with Bob Bartley
Where would we have been during the morass of the Clinton scandals without the clarion light of Wall Street Journal's editorial page? Where would we have been in the Carter and Reagan years without...
Paid articleUnholy Fire
Gold, Dore
T errorism is nothing new, but in recent years it has drastically broadened its scope and stepped up its aims. The new terrorism has struck from Indonesia to Yemen; terrorist cells have been...
Paid articleThe Lawsuit Lobby
Olson, Walter
W ere you to go looking for the nation's sharpest legal talents to spearhead an assault on a target as formidable as the tobacco industry, it might seem unlikely that Hugh Rodham's résumé would wind...
Paid articleDiversity
Wood, Peter
0 n visiting the Aru Islands southwest of New Guinea in March 1857, Alfred Russel Wallace encountered some diversity: At early morn before the sun has risen, we hear a loud cry of `Wawk—wawkwawk,...
Paid articleSaint Mugg
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
M alcolm Muggeridge, one of the literary spirits behind THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR and a major figure in America's libertarian-conservative movement, despite British citizenship, was born one hundred...
Paid articleBen Stein's Diary
Stein, Ben
H ere I am watching the "peace" demonstrators all around the world, and I am once again struck by one of the main observations of my life. I call it "political realism." Here is how it goes. It says...
Paid articleThe Talkies
Bowman, James
After three and a half hours, you will stagger out of Gods and Generals, Ronald F. Maxwell's prequel to Gettysburg, stupefied with pathos. From the start, it offers the full Ken Burns treatment of...
Paid articleThe Bias Bully
Grubbs, K. E. Jr.
S o Eric Alterman shoves off in his leaky little vessel, its bold mission to neutralize the conservative attack on the liberal media by the likes of Bernard Goldberg and Ann Coulter. He dips his oar...
Paid articleOur Withch Trials
Isaac, Rael Jean
S exual permissiveness has been the hallmark of the '60s generation. Behavior once considered perverse or illegal has become normative, even celebrated. It is the Boy Scouts who are on the defensive...
Paid articleWin Ben Stein's Wisdom
Lott, Jeremy
T rue story: failing to find international man of mystery Ben Stein's new book at the local Barnes & Noble, I went to the help counter to ask a saleslady for assistance. A quick computer search...
Paid articleI Might Be A Giant
Baker, Hunter
t was with a mixture of fascination / and amusement that I watched my moderately overweight lunch partner dive into his cooler with both hands. He displayed the grace of a seasoned magician as he...
Paid articlePublic Nuisances
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
honor were on admirable display after the liberal snipes set out to defame former secretary of state Henry Kissinger, whom the White House had nominated to chair the investigation of the September...
Paid articleCurrent Wisdom
Jackasses, Assorted
HARPER'S Victorian translation of the ruminations of Lewis H. Lapham, constipated editor of America's most tiresome catalogue of errors: Since the shock of September 11, 2001, the American public...
Paid articleLast Call
Pleszczynski, Wladyslaw
I almost saw Sandy Koufax pitch, once. He was the scheduled starter in an early season Saturday night game against the St. Louis Cardinals. We'd purchased tickets months in advance, and come that...
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